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DBS & working with Vulnerable people - Coggle Diagram
DBS & working with Vulnerable people
The Disclosure and Barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions each year by processing and issuing DBS checks for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. DBS also maintains the adults' and children's Barred Lists and makes considered decisions as to whether an individual should be included on one or both of these lists and barred from engaging in regulated activity.
If there is ever a safeguarding issue within your organisation and the people working or volunteering with children and/or vulnerable adults have not been adequately checked, your organisation could be held legally liable.
Generally speaking, if you plan on working with or around children or vulnerable people you will probably need a DBS check.
Costing and timeframe of DBS
Standard – £26
What it will check for:
Spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, final warnings
How long it normally takes:
About two weeks
Enhanced – £44
What it will check for:
As above – plus any additional information held locally by police forces that are reasonably considered relevant to the post applied for
How long it normally takes:
About four weeks
Enhanced with list checks – £44
What it will check for:
As above – plus a check of the appropriate DBS barred lists
How long it normally takes:
About four week
Definition of an adult at risk:Aged 18 years or over;Who may be in need of communitycare services by reason of mental orother disability, age or illness; andwho is or may be unable to takecare of him or herself, or unableto protect him or herself againstsignificant harm or exploitation.NB: Throughout this publicationwe have used the term ‘patient’ to refer to patients and clients.
I believe you would need a DBS for all the below especially if you working with children and young people for example workplacement , internship and so fourth.I also believe have a DBS is a good ideas anyway as especially if you were conducting a participatory workshop you wowuld need one as a creative practioneer.
Exhibitions
Workshops
Meetings
Teaching
Participatory art/design
Under the Equality Act, there are nine protected characteristics, namely:
Equality Act 2010
Sexual Orientation.
Sex
Religion or belief
Race
Pregnancy and maternity
Marriage and civil partnership
Gender reassignment
Disability
Age
The main pieces of legislation and guidance documents that you should be aware of include: The Children Act 1989 (as amended). The Children and Social Work Act 2017. The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.
The reason why i need to know about working with vulnerable people'? is if i was to conduct a Participatory design workshop or when in employment and a young person came to complete there work experince or placment i could work with them and also work on exhibitions and work along young people.